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Caption reads: "US 19 looking North from intersection with US 50, West Pike Street at Adamston Underpass. "

73. U.S. 19, Clarksburg, W. Va.

Caption reads: "Main Street, US 50 looking West from intersection of Third Street."

74. Main Street, Clarksburg, W. Va.

Georgeann Wells played for West Virginia University from 1982 to 1986. In 1984 she became the first American woman to dunk a basketball during a collegiate game.

75. Georgeann Wells Dunks Basketball

Caption on back reads: "Photo of framed suffrage poster. Poster from Baker Suffrage. Held by CWS."

76. Poster Advocating Women's Suffrage

Tillie Bernhardt, from Uniontown, P. A., graduated from West Virginia in 1897. She was the first first-generation woman to graduate from WVU.

77. Tillie R. C. Bernhardt

78. Class Picture 7th and 8th Grades, Douglass School, Huntington, W. Va.

79. Barnett School Orchestra, Huntington, W. Va.

Caption reads: "Mr. Barnett was one of the earliest black students to graduate from Dennison University in Granville, OH (1892) and was the second principal of Douglass High School (1897–1900). Mrs. Barnett lived to be 109 and moved for a while to Columbus, Ohio, to work and send them her two sons to college. She was a major source of history in the Huntington area."Further information on back of photo: "Carter Harrison Barnett (1867–1921) A. B. Dennison University, Granville OH (1892). Callie Jackson Barnett (1871–1980) Graduate of Granville H. S., Granville, OH (1893). Retired attendance officer, Cabell County, WV (1941)."

80. Carter Harrison Barnett and Callie Jackson Barnett, Huntington, W. Va.

Victorine Louistall Monroe was the first African-American woman to earn a graduate degree from WVU. She joined the faculty in 1966 as a professor of library science.

81. Victorine Louistall Monroe

82. Louise Keener

Caption reads: "Flo Lantz as Goddess of Liberty. Carrie Kate Fleming Scrapbook." The Hall refers to the WVU Woman's Hall.

83. Flag Raising at the Hall

Caption reads: "From Memory Book of Carrie Kate Fleming (BA 1920)."

84. Woman's Hall Group Portrait, Morgantown, W. Va.